A gilt grenade, a woman eating Indian Ink and a very naughty toilet are all on display in Catalyst Arts Gallery. Watch an online exhibition with curator Charlotte Bosanquet below
The new Catalyst exhibition Play & Skinned Knees is an eclectic grab bag of art, from the comic inspired ‘Whoosh’ by Chris Cunningham to the implied gore of video project ‘Bloody Thursday’ by Kim McAleese and Miguel Martin. Paintings, sculpture, photography, video installations and even one woman’s personal atlas are all on display.
Play & Skinned Kneesis an unselected exhibition featuring Catalyst members, some from as far afield as New York, where artist Colin McDonald – whose ‘Phone Piece’ was shipped over for the event – heard about the open call.’It’s nice that the show has that international [feel],’ remarks curator and Catalyst director Charlotte Bosanquet. ‘And to have all these links with the wider Belfast arts community.’ She points out some other pieces – ‘Black Holes’ by Brendan O’Neill, an ex-director of Catalyst currently working in the Queen Street Studios, and the gorgeous magpie studded globe ‘Bits of Earth’ submitted by Deirdre McKenna of the Golden Thread Gallery.
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